The fabulous winner’s prize this month is your choice of IndigoBlu stamps.As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1: 2 Large stamp plates

or
2: 4 Small stamp plates

or

3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog,and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post.That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the new reminder post that now goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge,the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs above.

This month’s Top 3 fromthe 'Autumn Days' challenge, as chosenby the DT are...

Well deserved congratulations to you all, and don't forget to grab your Top Three badge from the Badges tab above.

Here are the amazing creations from our Design team, hop across and leave them some love, and then don't forget to come back and enter the challenge. I think you will agree these ladies have outdone themselves this month.

I used Distress Inks in the following colours to create the background -
Forest Moss, Ripe Persimmon, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber, all applied
with blending brushes (well shaving brushes to be exact… lol) and I used a mask
to create the sun. All stamps used are from the Nature 1 set.

The challenge was to create something that makes you think of Autumn. My card
definitely does not look like a typical Autumn card with leaves, oranges, reds
and golds. Let me explain. I live in Perth Western Australia. Our Autumn is
really just an extension of summer with (hopefully) slightly cooler but still
warm temperatures. This card represents what Autumn means for me.
I used blue card and a blue distress ink background to represent the blue,
clear skies we have in autumn. The gold touches represent the sun. Due to the
slightly cooler conditions in Autumn, it is a good growing season so I have used
the flowers and green leaves to represent this and dragonflies are always around
in Autumn here. I love how they hover and flit about.

“I was really thrilled to be placed top 3 in the Indigo Blu Challenge,
Autumn makes me think of sunflowers – so that was an ideal starting point. Plus for some random reason I thought the challenge was Autumn Leaves and
not Autumn Days! Duh!!

Many years ago I taught a mixed media canvas project where I embroidered
the centre of daisies with french knots, and that was an ideal thing to do with the Indigo Blu Sunflower Stamp – and it really gives the
flowers lots of depth. All those leaves kicking around made me want to dry them off and use them as well – so I hope you pop over to my
blog and see how the Autumn Days Wreath was achieved and perhaps even make one yourself!”

Stunning inspiration here from our fab Top 3 winners of the August challenge, please pop over to their blogs to see how they made their inspiration pieces, and leave them some love. I hope they've inspired you to enter the challenge yourself, there is still time - 6 days to go!

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Today it's reminder day for our challenge, and some of our demonstrator's have some inspiration for you. If you haven't seen what this month's challenge is all about, take a look HERE. The theme is 'Autumn Days', and we'd love to see your entries, just remember, they MUST contain Indigoblu stamps please. Entries that don't have Indigoblu stamps used will be discounted.

The fabulous winner’s prize this month is your choice of IndigoBlu stamps.As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1: 2 Large stamp plates

or
2: 4 Small stamp plates

or

3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog,and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post.That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by our lovely DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the new reminder post that now goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

The girls have worked hard this month as always, here is their inspiration: